ÑóẊîöʼn
8th December 2010, 13:29
I've been recieving calls from this company for about three months now, and some irrational urge within me compelled me to a combination of playing along and obfuscating stupidity, which about a month ago resulted in quite a long call in which I believe I managed to talk to some higher-up (or perhaps not). I thought that was the end of it - I had thought I had demonstrated to their satisfaction that there was nothing really they could do for me.
But today I got two calls, and I confess I was quite short with the woman on the other end of the first call - I explained the situation I just outlined above to her, and negotiations ground to a halt when I started refusing to answer their questions and the call was quickly terminated.
Then about an hour or two later, I got the second call, and perhaps as some kind of revenge for my earlier unbecoming behaviour, I was subjected to what I can only describe as the ultimate "hard sell" - the guy basically put my name down for another call in 7-10 working days before I really realised what was going on, and he was pretty quick to hang up!
I've just taken a look at the service (http://www.bainesandernst.co.uk/debt-relief-order/) this company seems so desperate to sell me - apparently it's a "cheaper alternative form of [sic] bankruptcy" involving a £90 "application fee" to the Insolvency Service, a government agency.
What really gets me is the terrible urgency with which they seem to be pursuing this. Unless they get a cut of the application fee, what's in it for them? I actually asked this in a previous telephone conversation, and was given a thoroughly unsatisfactory wishy-washy answer which I don't even remember clearly. But despite my recalcitrance and even my questioning of their motives, they are insistent.
Can somebody tell me what the fuck is going on? More than once I've given serious thought to just telling them to fuck off, but morbid curiosity as well as the knowledge that nothing said over a phone conversation is legally binding is impelling me to continue this charade. I wonder who will break first?
But today I got two calls, and I confess I was quite short with the woman on the other end of the first call - I explained the situation I just outlined above to her, and negotiations ground to a halt when I started refusing to answer their questions and the call was quickly terminated.
Then about an hour or two later, I got the second call, and perhaps as some kind of revenge for my earlier unbecoming behaviour, I was subjected to what I can only describe as the ultimate "hard sell" - the guy basically put my name down for another call in 7-10 working days before I really realised what was going on, and he was pretty quick to hang up!
I've just taken a look at the service (http://www.bainesandernst.co.uk/debt-relief-order/) this company seems so desperate to sell me - apparently it's a "cheaper alternative form of [sic] bankruptcy" involving a £90 "application fee" to the Insolvency Service, a government agency.
What really gets me is the terrible urgency with which they seem to be pursuing this. Unless they get a cut of the application fee, what's in it for them? I actually asked this in a previous telephone conversation, and was given a thoroughly unsatisfactory wishy-washy answer which I don't even remember clearly. But despite my recalcitrance and even my questioning of their motives, they are insistent.
Can somebody tell me what the fuck is going on? More than once I've given serious thought to just telling them to fuck off, but morbid curiosity as well as the knowledge that nothing said over a phone conversation is legally binding is impelling me to continue this charade. I wonder who will break first?